Author Topic: ~ Age Quotes ~  (Read 6919 times)

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #105 on: January 28, 2016, 09:21:55 AM »
[highlight-text]Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Louis Kronenberger

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« Reply #106 on: January 28, 2016, 09:23:09 AM »
[highlight-text]When a noble life has prepared old age it is not decline that it reveals but the first days of immortality.

Muriel Spark

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« Reply #107 on: January 28, 2016, 09:24:16 AM »
[highlight-text]In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past we have arrived.

Knut Hamsun

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« Reply #108 on: January 28, 2016, 09:25:33 AM »
[highlight-text]I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

Sting

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« Reply #109 on: January 28, 2016, 09:26:57 AM »
[highlight-text]If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

James A. Garfield

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« Reply #110 on: January 28, 2016, 09:27:24 AM »
[highlight-text]Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval instead of as a merely descriptive term cannot be adult themselves.

C. S. Lewis

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« Reply #111 on: January 28, 2016, 09:27:55 AM »
[highlight-text]Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Victor Hugo

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« Reply #112 on: January 28, 2016, 09:29:03 AM »
[highlight-text]I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward he will look forward with the work.

William Ernest Hocking

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« Reply #113 on: January 28, 2016, 09:30:51 AM »
[highlight-text]To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #114 on: January 28, 2016, 09:32:44 AM »
[highlight-text]Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

C. S. Lewis

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« Reply #115 on: January 28, 2016, 09:34:29 AM »
[highlight-text]Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

Sam Ewing

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #116 on: January 28, 2016, 09:35:31 AM »
[highlight-text]Well enough for old folks to rise early because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

Mark Twain

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« Reply #117 on: January 28, 2016, 09:39:38 AM »
[highlight-text]You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and the children you have earned.

Fay Weldon

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« Reply #118 on: January 28, 2016, 09:40:01 AM »
[highlight-text]Old age adds to the respect due to virtue but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Ira Gershwin

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« Reply #119 on: January 28, 2016, 09:40:27 AM »
[highlight-text]There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but years after we know it was much later.

Mignon McLaughlin